DESTROY RAPE CULTURE! STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM!
Join Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society as we kick off our Destroy Rape Culture film series. We will be showing "The Invisible War", the first in a series of documentaries SDS we are airing throughout the semester to educate students on the epidemic of blaming the victims of rape in America.
The Invisible War (2012) documents the ongoing crisis of rape within the US military. According to the Defense Department, in the year 2011 alone, 22,800 violent sex crimes occurred within the US military...
The Invisible War (2012) documents the ongoing crisis of rape within the US military. According to the Defense Department, in the year 2011 alone, 22,800 violent sex crimes occurred within the US military...
and 1 in 5 women and 1 in 4 men in the service had been sexually assaulted. Statistics like these are extremely low as most rape cases go unreported often because the survivor is discouraged from reporting the incident by their assailant, who tends to be a superior officer. The Invisible War exposes the laziness of the US government to bring justice to survivors of rape in the military and its failure to accurately report it.
Sponsored by: Students for a Democratic Society, The Step by Step Collective, the UWM Women's Resource Center, and more to come.
Sponsored by: Students for a Democratic Society, The Step by Step Collective, the UWM Women's Resource Center, and more to come.
